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Wednesday, July 10, 2013

Re purposed door and mirror frame

Before we get started, just a quick reminder that tomorrow, Thursday, Raising Dick and Jane and I will be hosting a

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What can you do with an old door? What can you do with an old mirror frame? I found the perfect marriage with this pair.

This is a neat old mirror frame that I received from freecycle.

Here is a very cool door I found at an estate sale. Note: the door is only 4 foot by 18". It was probably from a cabinet.

Upon close inspection of the mirror frame, you can see that the spindle on the far side is bowed a little. This is the reason I went with the idea of building a table.

I cut the top portion off, which helped limit the amount of bend on the left spindle.

I drilled a hole and glued in a wooden dowel.

With this drill attachment (from my dad) I drilled holes in a 2 x 4 large enough to fit over the spindles.

Here is a dry fit to make sure it worked.

I drilled holes in the bottom of the door for the dowel to fit into.

Using lots of wood glue, I put all the pieces together.

I added a few screws to connect the table and the 2 x 4, then also put one through the 2 x 4 and the spindles.

After staining the 2 x 4 and touching up some marks on the legs, here it is. It would make a great sofa table or entry table, don't you think?

This really wasn't a very difficult project. The hardest part was coming up with a plan. Now, if you have other ideas you would have used to attache these 2 pieces together, I would love to hear about them!

It is a rare thing when I don't paint something, but the old door just had such beautiful wood I left it as is.

Cute, cute, cute. Such a clever idea. I would love for you to link up to my ongong Inspire Me party. - -http://www.astrollthrulife.net/2013/07/172nd-inspire-me-tuesday.html Hope to see you there. Hugs, Marty

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